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Recommend a SATA II PCI-E 4 channel RAID controller?
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend a SATAII PCI-E, 4 Channel RAID Controller, preferrably not made by Silicon Image?
It should be compatible with Windows 2003 Server - Advanced Server and the 64bit version of W2K3 Server.
MS has no HCL for Windows 2003 (they just take you to the W2K HCL, which is worthless for anything built in the last couple of years), so I'm driving blind.
Can anyone recommend a SATAII PCI-E, 4 Channel RAID Controller, preferrably not made by Silicon Image?
It should be compatible with Windows 2003 Server - Advanced Server and the 64bit version of W2K3 Server.
MS has no HCL for Windows 2003 (they just take you to the W2K HCL, which is worthless for anything built in the last couple of years), so I'm driving blind.
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willcomp, yes, I had a problem that seemed to be more related to Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 on that mobo - shortly after that installation was when the drive data corruption began. I was blaming the RAID controller, but, upon further investigation, I discovered that the 3114R is not supported by W2K3 as per SI's own website (they do support the 64-bit version of W2K3 however).
My mistake, as I now discovered, was in using the SI ports for SATA RAID, for a couple of reasons:
1. it is on the PCI bus- meaning it could never support SATA II speeds (PCI bus is too slow)
2. the nVidia is connected directly to the K8-04 chip making SATA II throughput possible
3. W2K3 problem with support.
So I needed to find another card to support 1 more set of harddrives as the 3114R has issues with W2K3
(I wanted 6 drives in 3 mirrors - OS/DATA/TLOG - for SQL Server)
I'm in the process of running the OS & DATA drives on the nVidia controller (I blamed nVidia unfairly) and will use a 3rd party card for the last 2 drives (I found a Tekram Areca PCI-e 8X card for $500 and a PRomise Supertrak EX8350 PCI-e 2X card for $390)
Does anyone know if I can plop a PCI-e 8X card in a PCI-e 16x slot? I'm new to PCI-e (used to PCI-x).
My mistake, as I now discovered, was in using the SI ports for SATA RAID, for a couple of reasons:
1. it is on the PCI bus- meaning it could never support SATA II speeds (PCI bus is too slow)
2. the nVidia is connected directly to the K8-04 chip making SATA II throughput possible
3. W2K3 problem with support.
So I needed to find another card to support 1 more set of harddrives as the 3114R has issues with W2K3
(I wanted 6 drives in 3 mirrors - OS/DATA/TLOG - for SQL Server)
I'm in the process of running the OS & DATA drives on the nVidia controller (I blamed nVidia unfairly) and will use a 3rd party card for the last 2 drives (I found a Tekram Areca PCI-e 8X card for $500 and a PRomise Supertrak EX8350 PCI-e 2X card for $390)
Does anyone know if I can plop a PCI-e 8X card in a PCI-e 16x slot? I'm new to PCI-e (used to PCI-x).
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